Submissions

I just sent off a page of poetry submissions to VSA Utah, Art Access VSA-AA. The submissions are for their literary magazine, Desert Wanderings. VSA-AA publishes a volume almost every year and I have had submissions in many of these volumes. VSA-AA is a fairly high brow operation aimed at getting people with disabilities into the arts I initially got involved when a friend, Lori, e into an acting company twenty some years ago. Art Access was cool, a lot of exposed warehouse bricks gleaming hardwood floors and a chance to play grown up writer, actor, artist a couple times a year. Art Access was housed in art colony, a row of warehouse conversions into art lofts—once a month the whole community opens all their galleries where food and public mingle and wine flows and and everyone speaks local art. I have co-written and produced a small play at Art Access and as I said have had a number of time published via their Desert Wanderings. I have thoroughly enjoyed each and every opportunity Art Access has extended me, over the years—but, what I have enjoyed most was the chance to act the grown ups a couple o times a year, wear my plaid jacket with elbow covers and a dark or white turtleneck and stand round in small groups answering questions about something I had written in the years current literary offering.

I have not submitted anything to the journal the past coupe of years—I should have I either forgot or I had nothing to submit well, I am starting write again, I blame on my Thrive, my hand held. I am writing hai ku on the train—I want to write hundreds, I want to write enough hai ku to fill a book. I am trying to focus on the poetry of public Transportation. I might even try to take some images to go along with the poetry—which would be very cool...but for now I have sent away my submissions and lets see if any are used. Keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck.